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Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 33 “These Boots Were Made”

I hope you can tell that Marna and I had a lot of fun making this episode. I can’t recall which of us came up with the cultural reference. But it sort of developed – until the aftershow was sort of inevitable. Anyhow here are the show notes for Episode 33. The podcast series isContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 33 “These Boots Were Made””

Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 32 “Scott Free”

Episode 32 was, as always a slow train coming. I think it’s a fun one – as well as being informative. It was really good to have Scott back, and we recorded in the Poughkeepsie studio, just after SHARE Atlanta, March 2023. Talking of which, the aftershow relates to SHARE. It’s a classic example ofContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 32 “Scott Free””

Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 31 “Take It To The Macs”

This is the first blog post I’ve written on my new work MacBook Pro. While it’s been a lot of work moving over it’s a better place as it’s an Apple Silicon M1 Max machine with lots of memory and disk space. That’s nice, but what’s the relevance to podcasting? Well, it’s very warm hereContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 31 “Take It To The Macs””

Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 30 “Choices Choices”

It’s been a mighty long time since Marna and I got a podcast episode out – and actually we started planning this episode long ago. It’s finding good times to record that does it to us, as planning can be a bit more asynchronous. Hopefully this delay has enabled some of you to catch upContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 30 “Choices Choices””

Really Starting Something

This post is about gleaning start and stop information from SMF – which, to some extent, is not a conventional purpose. But why do we care about when IPLs happen? Likewise middleware starts and stops? Or any other starts and stops? I think, if you’ll pardon the pun, we should stop and think about this.Continue reading “Really Starting Something”

What’s The Use?

It’s “Sun Up” on Conference Season – and I have a new presentation. It’s called “What’s The Use?” And it’s a collaboration with Scott Ballentine of z/OS Development. It’s very much a “field guy meets product developer” sort of thing. It emerged from a conversation on IBM’s internal Slack system. The idea is very simple:Continue reading “What’s The Use?”

Three Billboards?

You could consider presentations as advertising – either for what you’ve done or for what something can do. Generally my presentations are in the category of “Public Service Announcement”. Which rather combines the two: What I’ve found I can do – that you might want to replicate. What I’ve found a product can do –Continue reading “Three Billboards?”

Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 29 “Hello Trello”

This was a fun episode to make, not least because it featured as a guest Miroslava Barahona Rossi. She’s one of my mentees from Brasil and she’s very good. We made it over a period of a few weeks, fitting around unusually busy “day job” schedules for Marna and I. And this one is oneContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 29 “Hello Trello””

Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 28 “The Preview That We Do Anew”

(Originally posted 2 March, 2021.) It’s unusual for us to publish a podcast episode with a specific deadline in mind. But we thought the z/OS 2.5 Preview announcement was something we could contribute to. So, here we are. I also wanted to talk about some Open Source projects I’ve been contributing to. So that’s inContinue reading “Mainframe Performance Topics Podcast Episode 28 “The Preview That We Do Anew””